Man May Have Infected 300 People With HIV

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/06/20352866-grocery-store-worker-may-have-infected-300-people-with-hiv-prosecutor-says?lite
David Mangum, 37, allegedly told a detective that he hid his HIV status
from sexual partners because he feared they would reject him.​

KANSAS CITY -- A Missouri man was arraigned Thursday on charges that he recklessly infected a sexual partner with the virus that causes AIDS, and a prosecutor said he potentially could have infected 300 more people in two states.

David Mangum, 37, faces a felony charge in Stoddard County Circuit Court in southeastern Missouri accusing him of exposing a 29-year-old man to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes a life-threatening failure of the immune system commonly known as AIDS, according to court documents.
As well, Mangum admitted to having unprotected sex with more than 300 partners in Missouri and Texas since learning he was HIV positive in 2003, some of whom he had met through ads on the Craigslist Internet site, the court documents said.

"This situation is a serious public health concern," Russell Oliver, Stoddard County prosecuting attorney, said in a statement. "There are potentially 300 or more unknown victims that have been unknowingly exposed to HIV in this region. If any of those 300 individuals contracted the virus, all sexual partners of those victims have potentially been exposed."

Mangum, who worked in a grocery store in Dexter, Missouri, was arrested after his former partner learned in July that he was HIV positive. The man told police that Mangum had lied about having the virus.

Dexter Police Detective Cory Mills said Mangum told him he hid his HIV status from sexual partners because he feared they would reject him.
Mangum was assigned a public defender and his bail was set $250,000.

 

scary...especially when a percentage of these men are then passing it on to other men and women...they could have a dormant epidemic on their hands after 10 years of sex partner changes

 

and I am not one of them. :smt023

 

My impression from the title was that he had slept with 300 women.

Then, I saw his mugshot and knew that couldn't be the case.

 

Mangum? More like magnum :mrgreen: when he shoots, people die

I think there was a black kid way back when who went around fucking people while knowing he was HIV positive. That was back in the day when every other news report was about black hiv stats, framed in a way that you'd think we all have hiv

Wonder how much air time this story gets